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Eric J. Moore

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BIOGRAPHY Consultant, Professor of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Coauthor, “Retropharyngeal Lymph Node Dissection in Oropharyngeal Cancer Treated with Transoral Robotic Surgery,”, , The Laryngoscope., Contributor, , Complications in Head and Neck Surgery, 2nd ed.,

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robotic surgery

Robotic surgery, in medicine, the use of machines guided by doctors to perform surgical procedures. The word robot was first used in the play R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots, written by Czech novelist and playwright Karel Čapek and performed in 1921. The term originated from the Czech word for…